French
1824-1904
Jean Leon Gerome Galleries
French painter, sculptor, and teacher. Son of a goldsmith, he studied in Paris and painted melodramatic and often erotic historical and mythological compositions, excelling as a draftsman in the linear style of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His best-known works are scenes inspired by several visits to Egypt. In his later years he produced mostly sculpture. He exerted much influence as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; his pupils included Odilon Redon and Thomas Eakins. A staunch defender of the academic tradition, he tried in 1893 to block the government acceptance of the Impressionist works bequeathed by Gustave Caillebotte.
Related Paintings of Jean Leon Gerome :. | The Prisoner | Portrait of a Young Boy | The Dance of the Almeh | The Mayflower Compact, 1620 | The Picador | Related Artists: Francisco Antolinez y Sarabia Spanish Painter , Seville circa 1644-circa1700
Henry d Estienne 1872-1949 Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael painted Landscape with Dune and Small Waterfall in 1646